A thin cloud overspread the area of the reef and the adjacent sea--the dust, as I could not but fancy, of earlier explosions.
Presently after my friend overtook and passed me on a hired steed which seemed to scorn its cavalier; and I was left in the dustof his passage, a prey to whirling thoughts.
The fellow's eyes were directed to the ground, and he seemed to be counting with the most intense solicitude the prints of the hoofs of the oxen, mules, and horses in the dust of the road.
I was now thoroughly incensed, and without a moment's reflection, spurred the jaco, which flung him down in the dust, and passed over him.
Though I wish it were Bruce Anstey, or any of the pick of my young men to lie with me in the great dark and to crumble with me to the dust that is the real death.
His shoes, cut by sharply pointed stones, and with thread rotted by the dust of the deserts, were worn to shreds.
I know you've got one hereabouts, fer I foun' signs of the dust in your pack.
Her empire only had been subverted by the Latins: her religion was trampled in the dust by the Moslem conquerors.
Lights shone from every window; from the great stone gateway ran a tracery of wheel tracks drawn in the dust by the vehicles of the guests.
Upon this more important highway were, imprinted in the dust, wheel tracks left by the recent passage of some vehicle.
But up prances the alcalde and almost wipes the dust off my shoes with his forehead.
Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.
And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.
Mr. Hump Gibson arose slowly out of the dust, yet he did not stand straight.
And presently, sauntering along the street in a careless fashion, his spurs trailing in the dust, came Nicholas Temple.
The next thing I remember was being in the dust, suffocated by that odor which he who has known it can never forget.
Lapham rose from his seat and took down a large warped, unframed photograph from the top of his desk, passing his hand over it, and then blowing vigorously upon it, to clear it of the dust.
God, who made us so much like himself, but out of the dust, alone knows when that struggle will end.
Ali says she was like a wild beast, but he twisted her wrist and made her grovel in the dust.
He felt a sudden impulse of mad anger, and before he knew what had happened he was looking at Leonard da Souza rolling in the dust at his feet.
Without thinking he moved to pick it up, stooping with the sad and humble movement of a beggar gathering the alms flung into the dust of the roadside.
The dust settled, and the sun surging above the forest flooded the verandah with a clear light.
Native children played in the dust, and an old Kaffir squatted by the wall.
In the dead stillness of the afternoon I thought I could discern a shuffling in the dust.
Foreheads were rubbed in the dust, and then adoring eyes would be raised, while a kind of sobbing shook the worshippers.
Then Odysseus aimed well and smote him on his right shoulder, so that the point of the bright spear went clean through, and the boar fell in the dust with a cry, and his life passed from him.
And Eurymachus cast and smote the cup-bearer on the right hand, and the ladle cup dropped to the ground with a clang, while the young man groaned and fell backwards in the dust.
And as he came up from out of the stream, I smote him on the spine in the middle of the back, and the brazen shaft went clean through him, and with a moan he fell in the dust, and his life passed from him.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1942 for "The Dust Which Is God".
O little feet, take not the pathway yet, The dust of other feet with tears is wet, And sorrow wanders there with slow regret; O eager feet, take not the path so soon.
What scurried here, what loitered there, In the dust and in the dew?
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